HARTFORD, Conn. - The Trinity College women's basketball team, which outlasted the Amherst College Mammoths, 58-57, in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Championship Quarterfinals over the weekend, has advanced to the conference semifinals at Tufts University on Saturday, February 25.  The No. 3-seeded Bantams, coached by Emily Garner (6th Season), are now 21-4 and will face the No. 2-seeded Williams College Ephs (18-7) in their semifinal on Saturday at 4:30 p.m. following the other semifinal featuring top-seeded Tufts (19-6) and No. 4-seeded Middlebury (15-10) at 2 p.m. The semifinal winners will play in the NESCAC Championship Finals on Sunday, February 26 at at Tufts at noon.  The winner of the NESCAC Championship Tournament will determine the league's automatic qualifier for the NCAA Division III Championship Tournament.  Tickets for the semifinal games are $6 for adults, $3 for students/seniors and children under 2 are free. Semifinal tickets sold will be honored for both games if fans would like to attend both.
 
Trinity junior center Reilly Campbell (Wallingford, Conn) registered 22 points and 12 rebounds for her 17th double-double (10th in nation) of the year, as Trinity outscored Amherst, 15-4, in the third quarter after trailing by six at halftime in the quarterfinals.  Bantam junior Emma Wax (Pine Brook, N.J.) added 13 points and five assists, while senior guard Bria Fuller (Springdale, Md.) contributed nine points, three rebounds, five assists, and two blocks, and sophomore guard Hannah Marzo (Shrewsbury, Mass.) had six rebounds, six assists, and three steals against the Mammoths.Trinity was nearly flawless this season through the end of January, recording its best-ever record after 20 games at 19-1 but lost three of four games and twice on the road by a single point over the last 11 days of the regular season before last Saturday's win.  Williams held off the Bantams for a 49-48 win in Williamstown on February 3 in the regular season meeting between the schools. The Ephs held a six-point advantage with 16 seconds left. Wax drained a 3-pointer to slice the lead to three and Campbell converted a basket at the buzzer for the final one-point margin. The NESCAC Championship series is tied at 1-1. Trinity defeated Williams, 57-46, in the 2022 quarterfinals.

The Bantams top the NESCAC statistically in several categories, including assists (15.4 per game), assists/turnover ratio (1.12 per game, 23rd in nation), field goal shooting (40.9 percent), rebounding margin (+6.4 per game), field goal defense (32.7 percent, 23rd in nation), and scoring defense (49.5 ppg, 16th in nation).  Campbell leads the league individually in field goal shooting (57.7 percent, 18th in nation), rebounding (11.2 per game).  Campbell is also fourth in the conference in scoring at 16.5 ppg and fifth in blocks with 1.4 per game to go with 1.1 steals per game.  Wax is the 17th-leading scorer in the NESCAC with 10.5 ppg, shoots 40 percent from long range (24-60), and averages 2.8 assists (8th in NESCAC) and 1.0 steals per game   Fuller adds 7.3 ppg and 1.0 steal per contest, senior forward Frankie Silva (Auburndale, Mass.) averages 4.2 points and 3.2 rebounds per game, and Marzo boasts 4.8 points, 3.1 rebounds, 2.2 assists, and 1.0 steals per contest.